ἀλαλάζω

A. ‐άξω LXX Ez. 27.30: aor. ἠλάλαξα E. HF 981, X. (v. infr.), poet. ἀλάλαξα Pi. O. 7.37:—Med., S. Fr. 534, Arr. An. 5.10.3: (formed from the cry ἀλαλαί): —raise the war-cry, τῷ Ἐνυαλίῳ ἠλάλαξαν (as v.l. for ἠλέλιξαν) X. An. 5.2.14, cf.6.5.27; Med., Arr.l.c.: c.acc. cogn., νίκην ἀλαλάζειν shout the shout of victory, S. Ant. 133.

2. generally, cry, shout aloud, Pi.l.c., E. El. 855; esp. in orgiastic rites, A. Fr. 57; of Bacchus and Bacchae, E. Ba. 593 (in Med.), 1133, etc.; ὠλόλυξαν αἱ γυναῖκες, ἠλάλαξαν δὲ οἱ ἄνδρες Hld. 3.5.

3. rarely of a cry of pain or grief, ἠλάλαζε δυσθνἥσκων φόνὡ E. El. 843, LXX Je. 4.8, al., Ev.Marc. 5.38, Plu. Luc 28.

II. rarely also of other sounds than the voice, sound loudly, ψαλμὸς δ’ ἀλαλάζει A. Fr. 57; κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον 1 Ep.Cor. 13.1.—Poet. word, used by X. and in late Prose.